The challenges of researching language teachers: What research manuals don’t tell us

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 495-513

  Kubanyiova, Magdalena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classroom research; qualitative research; second foreign language teacher development; second foreign language teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950695466     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168808097162     Document Type: Article

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